Cameron Will
Principal Software Engineer at Tanium
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCameron Will is a Principal Software Engineer with 13 years of experience, currently shaping product technical strategy and cross-organizational architecture for Tanium’s Endpoint engineering. He founded and leads Tanium’s Product Technical Strategy Team, bridging gaps between Product Management and R&D while resolving high-severity customer escalations and architecting org-spanning projects. Prior to Tanium he led engineering efforts within IBM Security’s X-Force and QRadar Advisor with Watson, combining threat-intel systems work with front-end and API development. Cameron’s hands-on background ranges from intrusion detection cores to launching Tanium Threat Response, and he contributes to open-source tooling around secure HTML sanitization. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Virginia, where his thesis on large-database performance and scaling is archived in the university library. Based in Raleigh, NC, he pairs deep security-domain expertise with a knack for turning cross-team technical patterns into practical, scalable guidelines.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at University of Virginia
Github Skills (6)
html10
css10
javascript10
html-sanitization10
testing9
web-security9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
apostrophecms/sanitize-html
Jun 2015 - Nov 2017
Clean up user-submitted HTML, preserving whitelisted elements and whitelisted attributes on a per-element basis. Built on htmlparser2 for speed and tolerance
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 5 PRs, 15 comments in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Cameron contributed significant enhancements to the `apostrophecms/sanitize-html` repository, primarily focused on improving the HTML sanitization process. The commits introduce features such as per-tag scheme rules and AST parsing for style attributes, enabling more granular control over allowed content. They also addressed bugs and refined the code base through refactoring and test additions, enhancing the library's robustness. The user demonstrates expertise in JavaScript and web technologies related to secure content handling.
html-parser
cwill747/dotfiles
Feb 2016 - May 2025
My Dotfiles
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 58 pushes in 9 years 4 months
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